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by xpe 8mo ago
I can't tell if the comment is above is sarcastic or serious: it could go either way.
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by xpe 8mo ago
If you have a policy area you like you might start there. From my lens, here are some interesting ways to look at political economy from a broader point of view: economic disruption from AI (could be from energy prices, labor substitution,
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by xpe 8mo ago
> Investors love a monopoly... Indeed, investors left to their own devices act in this way. Underlying such a single point-of-failure is an implied but immense hope and thus pressure for stability. I wonder what the prediction markets sa
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by xpe 8mo ago
People with a control theory background are welcome in economics; the field is more diverse than some would recognize. Certain professions and subfields are more open than others. There are plenty of economists who care about things like re
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by xpe 8mo ago
> Normally this wouldn't be a problem: prices would go up, supply would eventually increase and everybody would be okay. This sounds like economic dogma based on pointing at some future equilibrium. I like the saying that goes somet
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by xpe 8mo ago
> Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn't be bothered to write? This is an easy but not very insightful framing. I want to read intelligent, thoughtful text that is useful in some way: to me, to society, to human
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by xpe 8mo ago
Taking a legitimate concern (which of course does factor into the overall trade-offs) but exaggerating it into a tirade is uninteresting. Trade-offs are complex. There is more than one sensible mix depending on one’s values and position. On
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by xpe 8mo ago
I don’t know about the particular claim about the new account — if true, based on what people have said, this would be consistent with an LLM bot with high probability … (but not completely out of the question for a person) … I’ll leave th
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> [an integrated terminal] is a standard feature in every IDE that’s ever been invented I invite you to back up your claim by researching the following (as a starting point). Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, VSCodium, IntelliJ IDEA, Py
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by xpe 8mo ago
> there is no monetization built in this website lol. First, this could change. Second, even if monetization isn't built "into" the website, it can happen via communication mediated by this website. Third, this isn't
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by xpe 8mo ago
There are a whole set of activities that are illegal to pay money for. They vary by jurisdiction. Who is accountable here? Laws vary; I’m not an expert, but I bet people here know quite a lot. Not to mention various risk factors or morality
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by xpe 9mo ago
There is more than meets the eye for sure. I recently compared a popular TUI library in Go (Bubble Tea) to the most popular Rust library (Ratatui). They use significantly different approaches for rendering. From what I can tell, neither is
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by xpe 9mo ago
It sounds like you are interested, noticing some inconsistencies, and trying to get to the bottom of it, which is a good place to start! > I bought gas at 2.27 a couple hours ago. Groceries are cheaper than last year. I'm personally
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by xpe 9mo ago
Smart people talk about differential impact; i.e compare what we’re seeing today against the counterfactual. / I’m not aware of solid reasoning that argues in favor of tariffs, differentially speaking. / I’m happy to look at model
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by xpe 9mo ago
I would like to see an analysis of the following policy proposal. Explore various ways for tracking how much citizen time the US executive branch is using and wasting. Make this information available to all branches of government. I’m quite
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by xpe 9mo ago
> There's nothing new in this. I would like to request some semblance of nuance. Some awareness of context. At least recognition that differences matter.
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by xpe 9mo ago
> I'm not fully onboard with the logic that we just have to live with a certain type of criminal behavior because the technology that could prevent it can be misused to enable another type of criminal behavior. We should aim to stop
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by xpe 9mo ago
I wonder what position the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (which Wikipedia describes as the largest lobbying group in the US) will take on this. I'd like to think they are rational and recognize that 99.99%+ of visitors are bringing tourism
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by xpe 9mo ago
> It simply doesn’t offer anything appealing to at least 95% of the people around me. Why not this: what is _best_ for a person once they fully educate themself? If it were your friend, what would you recommend, once you understood the
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by xpe 9mo ago
Well said. Even people with a lot in common can and should disagree often. In non-authoritarian systems, politics is supposed to be about managing this disagreement in civil ways. Politics seems unsavory to some, often because they find a l
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by xpe 9mo ago
Management is dead. Long live management.
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by xpe 9mo ago
There is a phrase I like: don't fail with abandon . Just because the NSA broke public trust doesn't make it ok for anything like it to happen again. This data breach from DOGE is worse in many ways. DOGE employees / contract
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by xpe 9mo ago
With the exception of financial or economic analysis [1], relatively few journalists get paid to write with quantitative nuance, much less awareness of probability. These articles are rarely written to prioritize harm or predict the future.
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by xpe 9mo ago
As long as we realize that prediction market accuracy is not all we care about. See also: one can have very high economic efficiency with very high inequality, war, disease, misery, etc.
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by xpe 9mo ago
I’ve read several dozen comments, but I haven’t come across the following stated quite this way: One option is to politely ask someone if they have headphones and/or to turn it down. Cont’d from ^: you can often lubricate the situation
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by xpe 9mo ago
> The stochastic parrot LLM is driven by nothing but eagerness to please. Fix that, and the parrot falls off its perch. I see some problems with the above comment. First, using the phrase “stochastic parrot” in a dismissive way reflects
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by xpe 9mo ago
What are your sources? The backing method doesn’t matter as long as it works. This is clear from good RAG survey papers, Wikipedia, and (broadly) understanding the ethos of machine learning engineers and researchers: specific implementation
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by xpe 9mo ago
You might start with https://github.com/zed-industries/awesome-gpui and https://blog.logrocket.com/state-rust-gui-libraries/
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by xpe 9mo ago
> When choosing between convenience and privacy, most people seem to choose convenience But they wish it would have been convenient to choose privacy. For many, it may be rational to give away privacy for convenience. But many recogniz
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by xpe 9mo ago
I like the way this article is organized; I learned a lot from it. I can't recall seeing this style of presentation before. To summarize and maybe get you interested: All the combinations of having-and-not-having these proper

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